then the los angeles city government and the governments of other cities, counties throughout southern california put together a $1 million reward hoping that that would lead someone who may have known where dorner was, perhaps even someone who may have been assisting him in some way, to come forward and give them information that would lead to his apprehension and ultimately his conviction. once that reward was posted, the number of calls and tips received by the task force looking for dorner quadrupled, from 250 to 1,000 tips within just a matter of days, wolf. so the public response was overwhelming. we don't know, though, if this engagement with dorner or this sighting of dorner, this encounter was the result of a tip. we mentioned the fish and game officials, that's very remote territory up in the big bear area, up in the mountains, it would make sense that they would be among the people best suited to find him knowing that back country so well, wolf. >> this is what we know right now, based on law enforcement sources providing this information to cnn, law enforcement is respondin